The Bus

On August 15, 1995, "Macarena" was released on the world. A few bits of trivia:

• CSI's Gloria Parkes (Tracee Ellis Ross) was in the music video
  
• No less an authority than VH1 named it both the "Greatest" one-hit wonder as well as the most "Awesomely Bad"
  
• It is Billboard's all-time #1 dance song
  
• In 2003, eight years after the song was released, the songwriters still pulled in $250,000 in royalties
  
• The Christmas version is one of 14 official versions
  
• Each Macarena converts to 3.72 Rebecca Blacks and 0.13 Oprahs.
  
• The only bigger single in the entire decade was Mariah Carey's "One Sweet Day" which is also a terrible song
  

I will not link the video.

Michael Corvin

The Guinness Book of Records 2007 states that "Candle In the Wind 1997" is the biggest-selling single "since records began."

Hokeyboy

I hate you people.

Groucho

I say we should do a Macarena Sheep game in celebration.

wishbone

Jason

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And people complained about Rebecca Black...

rexinnih

Great. Now it will take another 16 years to get it back out of my mind.

The Bus

Additional trivia:

Los del Mar (Spanish for those from the ocean, referring to Marbella) was a short-lived Spanish music duo, best-known for their hit single, a 1995 cover version of the Los del Río song, "Macarena", which was included on the album, Macarena: The Hit Album. The main member, Pedro Castaño, is still touring with this song.

STILL. TOURING.

RichC2

So which is the popular version? Los del Mar or Los del Rio?

pjflyer

How time flies. How old is Mambo #5 these days?

Larry C.

Just when I thought it was safe to read threads again you drop this shit on me???

cdollaz

The popularity of this song is one of the things that proves most people's musical taste is shit.

Groucho

I don't think it's the song as much as the dance. People love group dancing. This is why flash mobs are so popular. Macarena invented the flash mob!

The Bus

It's still a better song than "Who Let the Dogs Out"...

Hokeyboy

This should be the textbook definition of "damning with faint praise".

Groucho

I don't know about that. "Who Let the Dogs Out" presents a mystery to the listener. Whenever I hear it I like to imagine I'm on the CSI team!